KanbanBOX for Production and Material Handling
Manage the plant efficiently, flexibly, and leveled
KanbanBOX is not just an electronic kanban software, but a true tool for the pull management of materials across the entire production process.
From production scheduling to material handling, from demand leveling to process sequencing, KanbanBOX allows you to optimize production and handling flows, making them leaner, more transparent, and more effective, based on real-time data and standardized processes.
Thanks to the digitalization of kanban for production and handling, the entire flow of materials and information becomes faster, traceable, and integrated, providing shared visibility and enabling automatic procedures, integrated with the company’s ERP, which eliminate the inefficiencies typical of traditional processes.
The result is a truly connected production process, capable of responding agilely to demand fluctuations and ensuring the continuity of the production flow with a Lean approach.
Visibility and Control
Get a complete, real-time overview of production flows, enhancing control and management of each stage of the process
Scheduling and Sequencing
Plan and sequence activities efficiently and flexibly, leveling production to effectively respond to demand spikes
Kanban Orders and Closed Orders
A single platform to manage all production orders and materials, whether they are kanban or closed orders
Real-Time Shared Visibility on Production and Materials
Achieve maximum visibility and control over production and material handling with the shared board, a tool that directly connects production areas, material management, and logistical operations.
- Visibility on Inventory, Materials, and Production Processes
KanbanBOX’s digital board allows you to share the status of materials and production orders in a clear and visual way, ensuring all users involved always know which component or material is available, in stock, or needs replenishing, with real-time updates. - Real-Time Production Orders and Updates
Whenever a replenishment is needed or a new order is placed, the software instantly sends the order request to the supplier process, ensuring immediate synchronization between all actors in the production and logistics process. In case of anomalies or operational notes, comments can be added directly to the board, notified in real time to the counterpart and recorded in the history. - Standardization of the Process for Kanban and Closed Orders
With KanbanBOX, both kanban and closed orders can be managed in an integrated manner, centralizing all operations in one platform. This standardization simplifies management and reduces errors, providing complete visibility of both types of orders.
Maximum Synchronization Between Production and Handling
KanbanBOX optimizes the synchronization between production and material handling, thanks to advanced features that enhance efficiency and reduce waiting times.
- Automated Workflows and Automatic Production Batch Grouping
Thanks to automation, when a material or part number is ready, the transport request is instantly sent to the handler, with all information about the pickup and delivery locations. This ensures that each handler knows exactly what to move and from where to where, without any uncertainty. - Optimal Picking with Internal Milk-Run
KanbanBOX allows for intelligent picking management, using the internal milk-run method to collect materials efficiently and in sync, reducing handling times and improving internal logistics. - Integration with ERP, Automated Warehouses, and RFID
Integration with the company’s ERP, automated warehouses, and RFID technology ensures that information is always up-to-date and accessible in real-time, improving visibility and managing material flows with a synchronized and traceable production process.
Production Scheduling and Leveling
With KanbanBOX, you get advanced tools that effectively support production scheduling and leveling, improving operational efficiency and coordination between departments.
- Flexible Production Planning Optimization
Thanks to the Sequencer module, you can define and adjust operation sequences with a click, balancing machine and workstation loads to ensure operational continuity and flexibly manage priorities. - Production Leveling
Through the Heijunka module, distribute the workload evenly within production cells, minimizing supply variations and ensuring a consistent pace aligned with real demand.
Result: scheduling and production leveling become digital, visible, synchronized, and easy to manage processes.
Sequencer
Solve the complexities of manufacturing at finite capacity. The Sequencer is a Lean Manufacturing tool for planning the best sequences of operations on production machines. To make production truly efficient.
Find out moreHeijunka
Level with a click. This function allows the uniform distribution of daily and weekly workloads within the production cells. By displaying the information on the dedicated whiteboard, it adjusts the work rate of the individual operators, levelling picking and monitoring progress in real time.
Find out moreE-Kanban for Production and Handling: Real Case Studies
Many companies have adopted KanbanBOX to optimize production and material handling management.
Among those featured in our case studies are:
- El.Co., a company specializing in devices for industrial electrical automation, which adopted KanbanBOX to simplify the management of its production kanban and, in particular, speed up the kanban sizing process.
[Go to El.Co. case study] - Orotig, a leader in the creation of welding and marking machinery, which implemented sequential pull within the company and optimized multi-stage work management.
[Go to Orotig case study] - Gilbarco Veeder-Root, a U.S.-based multinational, which integrated production and material handling across several plants and continents.
[Go to Gilbarco case study]
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Case studies
Sacchi | Electrical Supply Distribution
Sacchi uses KanbanBOX to offer its customers a kanban-based sales service, ideal for recurring supplies and supports long-term customer loyalty
Oleodinamica Marchesini | Hydraulic valves
Oleodinamica Marchesini has optimized its production flow management by implementing multi-process kanban and pull production
Robopac | Packaging machines
With KanbanBOX, Robopac achieved a more integrated, responsive, and digitalized supply chain thanks to the integration with both external suppliers and SAP
BCS | Agricultural Mechanization
BCS moved from push to pull through E-kanban for suppliers, production, and internal flows. They now manage 6000 kanban loops across 3 plants
El.Co. | Industrial Electrical Automation
El.Co. has simplified the maintenance of kanbans with e-kanban, which was previously so onerous that the number of parts managed by kanban had to be limited
Orotig | Welding Industry
Orotig has implemented sequential pull in the company, optimizing multi-process production scheduling and supplier integration with KanbanBOX
Rossi SpA | Gearmotors and Electric Motors
Rossi Spa has digitalized the existing production and move kanban, then integrated it with its own ERP, with Oracle Sequencer and with suppliers
Aptiv | High-tech automotive systems
From the introduction of kanban to the transition to e-kanban. The Lean Improvement journey of the largest manufacturer of electronic interconnection systems for the automotive sector
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